On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:09:09PM +0400, Gennady Kupava wrote: > Hi, Nicolaus, > > Actually detached keyboard is almost useless for phone. It is not > possible to use it any conditions expect then phone lays on some surface > and you not holding it. > > This is because if you using one hand to hold phone, you have one one > hand free. Holding and using keyboard with one hand is not possible. > > Before implementing such detached keyboard, buy bluetooth one in shop > and try it - you'll find it completely useless :)
I fully agree on this, I have bought smaller keyboard (with USB cable) for freerunner and I don't use it very much, because as you said it's not really usable e.g. while sitting in train and trying to balance phone + keyboard on your lap. So in trains I'm using n900 only and om-gta02 is sitting at home always connected to desktop (with real keyboard). > So, keyboard on phone should be build-in and usable... and i don't know > how should look something better than keyboard on n900. I don't have hands-on experience but keyboard on pictures of Motorola Droid 4 looks even better then n900 keyboard, mostly because of extra row. http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/10/motorola-droid-4-review/ > If gta04 have hw keyboard, i buy it immediately as a every-day phone. > Linux has excellent set of command-line tools and it's a crime not to > have a hw keyboard on linux device. Agreed, that's why I also prefer more common layout with enough keys to map also '/', '|' etc. somewhere close to fingers. Cheers, -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: martin.ja...@gmail.com
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